Gabriel Malancioiu
Für Enescu
Duration: 16'
Instrumentation details:
flute
oboe
clarinet in Bb
bassoon
horn in F
violin
Für Enescu
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Für Enescu was written for Ensemble AVENTURE during an artistic residency in Tescani (Romania), offered by the National Museum “George Enescu”. Tescani is the place where Enescu loved to stay and compose, a place where he finished his opera, Oedip. Für Enescu is written for violin, Enescu’s beloved instrument, and for wind quintet, an indirect reference to Enescu’s Dixtuor. It is divided in four parts, each part having some connecting points with Enescu’s compositional output.
The beginning of the work introduces an important melodic structure for the future development of the piece mi, mib, do, a melodic line which represents the musical cryptogram of the composer’s name. Throughout the work there are other references to Enescu’s works: the “oiseau” technique of composition, dance-like melodic lines rooted in the art of traditional musicians, evocative sounds of nature; the only quotation appears in the third part of the work, in which is used a short melodic fragment from his Third Sonata for piano and violin.
Für Enescu is not intended to be a stylistic exercise using specific compositional techniques, but more a way in which Enescu is perceived by me in the XXI century.